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Some big who has a 30" vertical is such a super rare thing, but then .....
http://www.insidehoops.com/forum/sho...d.php?t=371538
Russell and Wilt with 39" verticals back in the day.
Today's NBA :lol
:lol today's NBA
You shit on your pants again but your home care worker isnt available? Should just live in a home for the elderly.
it's a well known fact that wilt and russell would sleep their way to titles if they were playing today.
:cry I have nothing to add but I still want to say somethingQuote:
Originally Posted by apalisoc_9
:cry HarlemHeat, who is actually me, please come in and back me up
:cry athletic ability is so much better in today's game, but then some kind of physical specimen like Drummond can't even be considered a top 10 player in the league despite his enormous physical advantage over everyone else
:lol Andre Drummond some kind of physical wonder, but can't even hit 40% of his FTs
:lol No post moves, actually, no moves at all on offense
:lol Athleticism with no skills. Haven't we seen this before? Stromile Swift, William Bedford, Benoit Benjamin, and a long list of busts along the way
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Originally Posted by ambchang
Ok grandpa. I know you enjoyed the days of watching white anerican basketball, but there is no reason to be this agitated. You can get a stroke.
40%?Quote:
Originally Posted by ambchang
But better fundamentals
Better nutrition
Eastern bloc methods
Advanced stats
Etc etc
WHAT HAPPENED TO ALL THOSE THINGS
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Originally Posted by Raven
Vince Carter still has a 38" vertical at 38, judging athleticism solely on vertical :lol doesn't know how to judge athleticism :lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by ambchang
Russel & Wilt MAYBE had a 39" vertical when they were rookies, and they weren't 280lb rookies like Drummond, not even close. I wouldn't be surprised if they lied though, you could get away with all sorts of bullshit back then like lying about your height, people used to believe Sampson was 7'4 & Olajuwon 7'0 :rollin
https://turnernbaallball.files.wordp.../173406690.jpg
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Originally Posted by ambchang
Monkey baller Kemp taking it to Olajuwon, Hakeem was lucky Kemp couldn't even dribble a ball :lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb-Xs901EWs
Plz, stop kemp :cry
Kemp was like a 1 dimensional smaller version of Bron too that's what's really sad
holly shit Sampson is barely 7'1 there :lolQuote:
Originally Posted by KL2
Practically all of these guys had their heights exaggerated by 2-3 inches. Mutombo, although he's a bit hunched over from age doesn't look the 7'2 he's listed at.Quote:
Originally Posted by spursistan
These days heights are much more accurate, usually guys up their heights 1-1.25" (with shoes), but rarely 2-3 inches like these old school players did.
If we did that in today's league players like Leonard would be 6'8, Marjanovic 7'5, Durant 6'11, etc.
Why do you always use youtube highlights to back up your shitty arguments?
Here's how Kemp played against Dream over their careers:
http://www.basketball-reference.com/...1&p2=olajuha01
And :lol today's heights more accurate. 6'8" Dwight Howard is listed as 6'11".
Here's 6'9" Bill Russell standing next to "6'9" Ben Wallace.
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-d...0Ben%25201.jpg
As usual, you're full of shit. Every NBA fan who actually knows the history of the game knows that in Russell's day, players were measured barefoot as opposed to in shoes, like today.
And here's 6'9" Bill Russell alongside 6'11" Tim Duncan.
http://cache1.asset-cache.net/gc/450...rPjytKk8fE4Rle
"6'9" Paul George :lmao
http://cache1.asset-cache.net/gc/181...BYYxJk5x1jTXoY
:lol Today's heights are more accurate.
For someone who is promoting new = better, you sure have a lot of recycled old shticks.Quote:
Originally Posted by apalisoc_9
Hey, get more videos of athletic players, they are so athletic they MUST be good.
Apparently those things do not help with FT shooting :lolQuote:
Originally Posted by lefty
Wilt was 7'1" 275lbs, without Eastern Bloc training methods. If he had those, Wilt would be 360lbs of pure muscle and have a 6' vertical leap, can run 100m in under 6 seconds, long jump 70 feet, and shot put 400 metres. You know, EB training make any normal Joe Schmloe into superman.Quote:
Originally Posted by KL2
And you did notice that 6'11" Dwight was in that photo next to Hakeem and Sampson, right? Why didn't they measure Dwight accurately at 6'8"?
Kevin Love is 6'10" :lol standing next to 6'8" Derrick Williams
http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2011/1229...ove_sy_576.jpg
But Charles Barkley was only 6'4" :cry
http://i.imgur.com/kz8SVrz.jpg
Kemp couldn't dribble? One of the more revolutionary things about Kemp was how well he could handle the ball and go coast to coast.Quote:
Originally Posted by KL2
And glad you brought up Kemp, he was more or less one of the most athletic bigs to ever play the game. While he was good, no one in their right minds would ever put him in the top 20, or even top 30 players of all time. This is taken into account he played in the league when Eastern Bloc training methods became popular (according to some random guy who put up random and often self-contradictory claims), so he was playing against :cry white American basketball players :cry all the time, and yet he still didn't dominate.
Booooom goes the dynamite :lolQuote:
Originally Posted by midnightpulp
NBA TV ratings plummeting since the 90's, in regular season, Finals, and all star games.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation...ielsen_ratings
:lol today's NBA
:lol two team league with inflated regular season records
:lol Warriors "historic" season, during worst mass tanking NBA has ever seen
:lol today's Center position
:lol mental midgets, Dwert, Cousins, 50 year old Jim best defensive big :lol
:lol overrated, ref coddled softass wings, Harden, glass ankles Curry, Chucking Rapist, Beta Durant/LeRoid
:lol even fatass Americans don't give a shit about :lol today's NBA
:lol TV ratings peaking in the 90's
:lol aesthetically pleasing no-talent scrubs
:lol faggots
TD has about 2" in Russel:Quote:
Originally Posted by midnightpulp
http://img.bleacherreport.net/img/im...630&h=420&q=75
And PG was a 6'7 rookie in that picture, he grew 2" to 6'9 from his rookie year:
http://media.gettyimages.com/photos/...re-id509444064
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Originally Posted by midnightpulp
Howard is listed as 6'9 on draftexpress w/out shoes and 6'10 with them, he's practically the same height as Olajuwon.
"Measurements prior to 2000 are based on newspaper articles rather than official league documents. While the measurements reported in such articles are reported to be officially from the predraft camp, we are taking those writers at their word and can not completely verify that information."-Draftexpress
Heights are more accurately listed, some heights were accurate, others were completely off.
You could come up with all sorts of bullshit back then, in fact I'm sure Mutombo lied about his age, he's in his late 40's in that pic but looks like he's at least around 60 :lol
And Kemp was young, it took him years to fill his body out:
http://www.operationsports.com/forum...ictureid=20363
Even Leonard was bigger as a rookie :lmao
Kemp's ball handling was shit compared to a Griffin or Bron or any other point forwards:rollin it just looked great around other bigs/players that were also shit ball handlers. Everybody raves about Olajuwon's athleticism yet he couldn't even handle Kemp.Quote:
Originally Posted by ambchang
Kemp took years to fill his body out, look at the post above, he always gave Olajuwon trouble and was bullying him when he finally did fill out.
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Originally Posted by Molotov
That just accounts for American TV ratings, the game's popularity has expanded and exploded globally from the millions to the billions :lol
Hmmm ... Let me guess why that is .... Oh, right, Jordan, a player in the late 80s to 90s expanded that game!Quote:
Originally Posted by KL2